Attempts to legitimise the King’s marriage and increase his power hit unmovable obstacles as Sir Thomas More and Bishop Fisher insist that only God can be head of the church….

Sir Thomas More refuses to accept Henry’s command that his people swear an oath of “allegiance and recognition of the King’s supremacy” to both church and state. Anne is made…

Christmas at the Tudor court is a time for ringing in the new. Mistress Anne Boleyn has replaced the banished Queen Katherine. The King’s chaplain, Thomas Cranmer, makes a fact-finding…